The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-05
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Trade and industrial Notes

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Trade and industrial Notes.
The Eagle machine-works last week shipped
ewo saw-miils complete to Mexico.
The Acme Touring mills in the month of No
vemosr, turned out 90. Col barrels of -four
The L, D. & s. company has laid a switching
track to the Eagle machine-works 500 feet in
length.
The Indianapolis ear-works have the addition
to their foundry mpleted and are now casting
l2o car wheels per day.
Geisendorff & Co., contemplate considerably
enlarging their wooden mill the coming spring,
to accommodate their rapidly increasing bust
ness.
The Jenney Electric Company on Saturday
received an order from Grand Ledge, Mich, for
30-arc-light plant, the city being the purchaser.
coast
The rebuilding of the Closer & Co. elevator
recently burned. is progressing. and the company
hope to have the building up and new machinery
In SO as TO commence operations on the fTst of
the year.
Sewing machine agents report their trade this
fall Is having been highly satisfactory. The
reading houses sold 80 per cent more machines
In November, this year, than in the correspond
in e month, 1886.
Among the shipments made last week by Dean
Brothers deep-weil pump to Greenville.
Miss; No. boiier-feeder to Michigan; an
ammonia liquor pump and large blowing
engine to Louisville, KY.
The Salisbury Paper Company has within the
last few months built up an extensive trade for
their product in the Southern States Last
week they made shipments of paper to Atlanta,
Ca. Memphis, Tenn, and Dallas. Tex
One OF the Touring mills has 120, 900 bushels
of wheat in store, every kernel Of which
was bought at SO to 20 cents per bushel
The firm feel pretty good over the purchase, as
they see wheat moving up cent bushel per
day.
Business with the hominy mills has improved
remarkably in the last thirty days, and although
their product is advanced with the price of corn
orders come in as fast as they can fill them
The two mills are using some $500 bushels OF
corn per day.
johnson & Co., manufacturers OF excelsior,
are now running day and night They convert
twelve cords per day of linn wood into excel
sior. A cord of wood makes one ton OF the ex-
celslor. There is hardly State in the Union TO
which they do not ship their product.
The United States encaustic tile works have
fifty per cent more orders on their books to-day
than they had at the corresponding period last
year. Among several large orders received last
week was one to furnish the tiline for the new
court house going up at St Ciairsviile. u.
Chandler & Taylor are enlargiug their plant
and increasing their facilities to meet the de-
mand for their engines. During the past week
they have sent engines to Coatesvile, Green
field, Anderson and Fairmouns. Ind. They
also sent carloads to Canton, Pa, and Portland.
Ore.
In the month of November Northern and
Eastern roads brought into Indianapolis over
600 carloads of apples and 500 carloads of pota-
toes and onions. A considerable per cent. Of
these products shipped in bulk to other
markets. some going to Louisville and some to
St Louis.
put in stone foundations near the Nandalia
tracks. sixty feet long by twenty-five feet wide.
on which a brick structure is TO be erected for
storing their meats after arrival hare. coy
Office will be fitted NJ in connection with the
cold-storage house.
The Eagle Machine-works Company have
their large thres-storY building. which is to be
used for carpenter shop and storage house,
under roof, and their improvements generally
are well near completion, aud on the first of the
year they will give employment to $50 men,
their full complement.
Thomas Markey president Of the South-sid
foundry, last week received large order for
the class of castings they manufacture from
NcMillville, Ore. The same establishment last
week shipped bill of goods to southern, Ten
nessee, which order had been declined by foun-
dries at Louisville. Cincinnati and Nashville.
Superintendent Ijams. of the live stock yards.
is expendine a considerable sum of money IN
general repairs. Including the new stock shed,
500, 900 has been expended in improvements
since the first of last June, and now he has let
the contract TO paint the hotel. both inside and
outside, the improvement costing $1,000 or
more.
All the manufacturing establishments on the
line of the canal are again running by water.
Owing to the drought for Ave months they ran
their establishments by steam. yet the Water
works Company demand payment for the same
amount as if the supply of water had been
ample. There IS a good deal OF soreness over
the matter
The three packing houses last week killed
10 800 hogs Landers & Co. killing 4. 200, Coffin,
Fletcher & Greenstreet 9.6O0 and Kinean
& Co. 81 500 On three days last week kIngan
G. Co killed s. 500 per day. In November the
Indianapolis packing-houses killed a total OF
146 500 hogs. against $4,000 the corresponding
month in 1886
The prospects are that the Indianapolis steel
Within the last few days they have received
numerous inquiries as to prices and terms gen.
orally which they will furnish rails The
rails the works have turned out thus far have
been pronounced by expert judges to be OF
superior quality.
The Wood burn -Sarven wheel-works buildings
the West Side, are beginning TO loom up.
Three brick buildings 150 feet long by fifty
wide, three stories high. resting on stone foun-
dations, are completed, a fourth is well under
way, aud excavations for SIX more Of the same
dimensions in progress. and another dry
house of immense proportions is to be erected.
The Udell Wooden-ware Company, which have
been running until 10 o'clock nightly for some
weeks past to enable them TO catch up with
their orders. WILL after this week. run but ten
hours per day. A A. Barnes, proprietor. will
about the 25th of this month go to California on
q pleasure and business trip com ined A large
cent of the products of this establishment are
sold on the Pacific coast.
Indications are that this year useful presents
to be given more extensively than in former
years. The manufacturers of desks. tables. hat
racks and goods of like character are so pressed
with orders that they putting their men in
all departments this class of work Spiegel.
Thomas & Co. state that their orders for this
class of work unpredenentedlv large, aud
the Central Chair Com pany reports the demand
for fancy chairs remarkable
This Weeks Amusements.
The famous Dunlap Opera Company,
ganizaton of forty well-known operate artists.
1,;Iia Mac
will appear at the Grand tonight, tomorrow